The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, August 17, 1911, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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Fore ward.
The editor asked the writer tb
grind out a little editorial copy
this week in his absence. As he
has returned I do not want him
mobbed or even subjected to the
necessity of disavowing any views
expressed below I publish this1
prefatory word. From prudential
considerations the writer is also
leaving town before publication.
Pursuit would be useless.
G. R. Pettlgrew.
Poor Mississippi!
And so Varadman the unshorn,'
the wild woolly one, he of the i
seal 'arpaint, has broken i
' States Senate at I
'tansas, who, af
eruptions thgt
tion, t)ut i lybody, has iecess
.apure u have a kinof
pSuch
men taken seriously
only in-so-ia* ?ey are symptoms.
They reveal an abnormal
state of mind in our people that is
to be deeply deplored.
When Barnum said that the
American people liked to be hum-!
bugged he uttered a truth that had
a wider application than he knev. j
Their complacent credulity as to
the fake freaks of the dime museum
is as nothing compared with
their gullibility before a fantastic
political freak.
The ma" or the small boy who
raises the cry "Stop thcif!" and
sprints down the street will have
an Immediate following. It matters
not that there is no theif; there is
at least the excitement of the chase.
So it is with the spook-conjurer?
your calamity howler. Like the
"Pled Piper" he attracts those who
employ others to think for
them and leads them where he will.
We are nothing but grown-up chil-1
ren alter all?with thia difference:
when children the spooks chused
as; now we chase the spook. But
the result is always the same?general
demoralisation.
Vardaman's spook is the Black
Peril?a renaissance of Reconstruction!
Don't laugh! Mississippi
".wallowed it whole, and asked for
more. They sent Vard. to the Senate
to tell them all about it in
Washington.
John Sharp Williams defeated
him a few years ago by a narrow
margin ? say the skin of his teeth
approximately ? but like Banquo's
ghost he won't stay down ? so long
as he can see ghosts!
Of course the valiant Vard. will;
stand between his beloved state j
and the Black Besom that threatens!
Hie has his war-chariot prepared,
and indeed crowned his
campaign by appearing therein in
the sun-bakod streets of Meridian
(or was It Jackson?) attired in.
speckless white, chariot and all,1
"propelled" by one hundred and
sixty white oxen?sans spot speck
or stain. "Vote for the White
Chief" was the tegend on the banner
that relegated "Excelsior" to
the rear car.
' V What followed? Seemingly every-!
ody In Mississippi. It was a verbis
triumphal march. White Suemacy
was saved, also vindicated
.mornings to suit the taste) and I
the Shaggy One got there.
Wu it the oxen or the aaeea that
elected the White Knight?
Whet would you think of a man
who iboaM etation himself in the;
middle of Main street, flourish a
red shirt, and give a whoop for
Wade Hampton? That will do.
Thank you. We all honor Hamilton
and his heroic followers?but
that fight is won! The war is over.
Hampton is dead and so is the issue
as far as politics is concerned.
There lives?a memory that can
never die, and we do not want it
desecrated by demagogues!
Add local color and that is about
what Vardaman did in Mississippi;
and countless thousands accepted
and acclaimed him as the very
thing they had been wanting and
waiting for, looking and yearning
for, lo, these many years! They
got him; and he got the U. S.
Senate; what will he do with It?
Presidential Perplexities.
The tariff question has a very
unpleasant habit of kicking back
when one tampers with it. even with
the best intentions. Our history
has demonstrated this more than
once, to the discomfiture of aspiring
politicians and the embarrassment
of political parties.
Fearing, no doubt, that his countrymen
in their absorption in business
and baseball would forget
this historical fact, President Taft
has decided unselfishly and vicariously,
to give a brand new demonstration
of this back-action, tripleexpansion,
party-paralyzing idiosyncrasy
of the Tariff Terror. His
motives were good and his plans
well made. Disregarding the advice
of the "stand patters" of the
party he adopted the Reciprocity
founling in a fatherly way that was
most commendable and proceeded
to coddle and fondle it into a state
of animation and vigor suggestive
of the infant Hercules.
Thus far all went well and everybody
was well and happy (except T.
R. and Senator LaFolette) and the
future looked bright as a picnic
party when dinner was announced
The paternal Taft was blushing
with modest pride over his accomplishment,
("and 1 did It all by
myself, too, while Teddy wasn't
looking!") the Canadian fostermother
was all smiles and giggleB,
and Uncle Sam jerked his chin
whiskers with a chuckle of approval.
Diit alas for the vanity of human
hopes! Mr. Taft's very humanity
precipitated his extremity,
and his extremity is the democratic
opportunity. No sooner was his
generosity noised abroad than two
other foundlings are placed at his
hospitable door seeking shelter and
nurture. We refer, of course, to
the Wool Bill and th e Farmers'
Free List Bill, which the democratic
hou*.* thinks ought to challenge
the pity nnd paternal instincts of
the President. Now it must not
be inferred tliu-. there is anything
malacious in i'u^ action of the
Democrats; far from it. The President
had been so srenerous ii
proffering the Reciproci...- program
that they determined to reciprocate
?in a missionary spirit?by v.'ferhig
him a nice little surprise p.-ty
in the form of the two tariff
bills aforesaid. This is practical
reciprocity ? the President't pet
principle in practice! A pretty
predicament in which to place a
philanthropic president! (P's for
dinner!) Here are two sharp, nicely
polished horns of a dMemma: one
spell oblivion; the other political
ruin t it the portly one exercises
the veto power and repudiates the |
wailing orphans, they do say your
Uncle Sam will shut off the White
House coffee and otuer provisions;
if he follow up his pioneer
tariff policy by adopting the
youngsters he will lose his present
lucrative job, just when he is in
the line of promotion with a promising
future before him! And it
all comes to about the same thing
In the end! It means?what does
it mean? Ye shades of private
life! That is no place for an expanding
statesman who has become
accustomed ? acclaimed ? to the
other things! With that comfortable
and cumulative stipend of;
175,000.00 plus the pin-money
perquisites pertaining thereto, the
President, by taking in dress-making
and washing, could keep a
horse and buggy, go to the circus1
and ' have cottage pudding
three times a week for dessert. It
is hard to forego, renounce, and re- |
linquish all right, title and interest I
in such luxuries in the prime of1
life and portliness. It is likewise
hardy?yea harder?for a fat man j
to have such a prospect to wreath* !
with during the hot season. Here j
is the vulnerable point In the
Democratic armor* simh '
blooded Indifference to human suf- j
fering is deserving of the gravest
censure on the part of law-abiding |
and respectable citizens.
It all comes of starting a cru-!
4*de or movement in the right direction
(without putting on automatic
bomb-proof brakes in advance)
when you don't mean to
go all the way. A little reform,
like a little learning, is a dangerous
thing. Drink deep?or throw
your dipper away! And your true
reformer will not only drink, but J:
plunge into the spring, "sink or
swim, curv'vc 01 perish," and ho :
will disdain the use of a life pre- |
server.
Does Billy Taft measure up to
this standard? We fear not; oth-,
pear and his present dilemma would
pear and his present dileina would
prove to be more apparent than
real. In modern experience, with
despotism and persecution excluded,
a reform seldom reacts against the
reformer if he be sincere. But it
will either reform him or destroy
him. It would either mould and
8h".pe him into its spirit and semblance
or reduce him to the ranks;
he must conform to the new order
or die with the old. The creator
must be greater than the creature
or it will rend and ruin him. The
little rivers and streams feed the
ocean only to be submerged and ;
swallowed up in its vast expanse
the ocean creates the clouds, the
wonderful water works of Nature
to have them serve as her har
maids in the perpetual replenishing
of the wealth of waters.
We do not believe that Taft can
make good in the role of reformer.
He is not big and broad and bold
|
enough. He is a dabbler? a dilettante?in
the reform business, ;
and will lose all because he is not
willing to risk all. The reformer
who hesitates is lost.
Roosevelt played reformer with
niore success than his successor will i
ever achieve, not because he is a I
better man but because he is a
stronger. Perhaps his was not a!
more definite moral purpose than I
Taft's, but it was more daringly i
and aggressively displayed. His day
was longer than Taft's will be be-'
cause, being a consummate noliti-!
clan, he knew how to exploit such
powers and virtues as he possess- j
ed to the utmost. His sheer strenuosity
diverted attention from the i
weaknesses that are now apparent to
all. He knew as Napoleon knew,
as Cromwell knew, but as few other
men have ever known, how to
capitalize every force in his favor
and neutralize opposing forces
with! or without the camp. He
fiddled so loudly that you could !
hear nothing else, as Nero must
have fiddled while Rome burned. |
Taft's tune is thin and weak and ;
it has few variations, (What a con-i
trust to that of his predecessor!) |
and he is not much at fiddling j
anyhow! He fears a discord no;
les. than a new tune. And be-1
sides the weather's too hot for a
fat man to fiddle in, future or
no future.
Would Sell Her Finger.
Chicago, Aug. 11.?Mrs. Minnie
Oherrin says she will gladly sacrifice
the index finger on her right
hand in order to give her six-year- 1
old daughter, Isla, a musical education.
The buyer of the living finger, if
the transaction is culminated, will I
be Mrs. Reginald Waldorf, of Phila-I
delphia. Mrs. Waldorf's index finger
on the right hand was injured I'
by a cut from a rusty nail. Blood
poisoning resulted aud the finger
vas amputated. "There is but one)'
ta?ng that can restore your hand to
'1? former condition," said the sur- j
geo * who amputated the digit.
"Softe other woman whose finger
will t't and who is willing to sell
her finger mogt be found. The new
finger can be amputated and grafted
on."
So an advertisement was published
in the Philadelphia papers inviting
proposals for a 'Inger.
Mrs. Oherrin saw the advertisement
and wrote that she would .
make the sacrifice.
"Are you willing to have your finger
cut off to buy the education I
for Isla?" was asked.
"Why certainly," answered Mrs. j
Oherrin.
"Haven't 1 made every other sacrifice
a mother is capable of mak- 1
ing for her? 1 would be the hap- j
piest woman in the world if this1
can be done."
Notice
1 have a few hundred copies of
the latest publication of the U. S. I
Agricultural Yearbook, (1910.) Ii
will send a copy to anyone requesting
It.
J. E. Ellerbe.
For Sale.
4 04 acres of land in Robeson
county, 1 V& miles of R. R. and
church; 25 acres in high state of
cultivation. 100 acres can be easily
cleared. Several thousand feet
of pine timber on the place situat- j
etd on public road and R. F. D. ;
route. Will sell at once for $2,-:
500.00.
Wesley J. Brltt,
Liumberton, N. C.;
8-17-p i
Citation.
Whereas, H. Q. Berry has made,
suit to me to grant him letters of!
administration to the estate and
effects of Stephen F. Berry, deceased,
these are therefore to cite
and admonish all and singular the.
kindred and creditors of the said|
Stephen F. Berry to be and appear
at the probate court to be held on ;
the 26th day of August, 1911, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon to show
cauee if any they have why the said
letters of administration should not
be granted.
Given under my hand and seal
this 15th day of August, 1911.
R. A. Brunson,
Judge Probate Dillon Co.
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t\ W ATKINS, THE AUCTIONEER
?If you have a farm, lots,
horses or anything else to sell,
WatklnB is the auctioneer to get.
He Is an experienced auctioneer
and kuowB how to get the worth
of anything. Sale of horses,
mules and anything you have begins
promptly at 2:30 every Saturday.
THE BOOT BLACK DEPARTMENT
will give you good work at il. K.
Cottingham'8 barber shop. Good
shines and satisfactory work. Call
for Beck, the boot black.
WANTED. ? BY RELIABLE I'ARty,
a good driving horse for 30
or 60 days for his keeping. Guarantee
best of attention. Apply
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5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any
case <tf Chills and Fever. Price,
25c.
WANTED. ? PURCHASERS FOR
late maps ot South Carolina,;
showing Dillon county, popula-j
tion of towns and cities, rural'
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PURCHASER WANTED, FOR FINE |
plantation in Sumter county, S.
C., containing 485 acres ? 2501
under cultivation?balance wood- j!
land. Healthy locality, fine water.
Several tenant houses, good
school and churches near by, half
mile from depot. Fine crops
growing on it now. Adjoining
lands can't be bought for $100
per acre. Price of this to quick
purchaser $65 per acre. Terms
easy, 140 acres under wire fence.
Possession given January 1st,
1912. H. S. Cunningham, Bishopvllle,
S. C. 7-14-4t
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Life Pills:
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If other kinds you've tried in vain,
USE DR. KING'S
And be well again. Only 25c at
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A Peep Into His Pocket.
would show the box of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve that E. S. Loper, a
carpenter, of Marilla, N. Y., always
carries. "I have never had a cut,
wound, bruise, or sore it would not
soon heal," he writes. Greatest
healer of burns, boils, scalds, chapped
hands and lips, fever sores,
skin eruptions, eczema, corns and
piles. 25c at Evans' Pharmacy.
5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any j
case of Chills and Fever. Price, I
25c.
A nice new line of stationery at
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Fine pound paper and envelopes
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Come and see for yourself our
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FOR SALE ? ONE NEW FOUR
McCormac mower and rake for sale
at a bargain to quick purchaser.
Applv to J- H SnillroR milnn
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FOR RENT. ? ONE FOUR^ROOM
house near business section. Apply
quickly to Herald office.
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Master's Sale.
Under and by virtue of a decree i
of the Court of Common Pleas for
nm?- ?- " "
' iwu tuumy, a. *j.t in tne case of
Ed Hill, plaintiff, vs. C. R. Uzzle,
defendant, the undersigned will sell
at public auction before the Court
House door at Dillon, S. C., on
September 4, 1911, within the legal
hours of sale. All that certain lot
of land in Dillon cqunty, State
aforesaid, at Holmesville, S. C.,
bounded as follows: Beginning at
the corner of Ed Hill's lot. running
North fifty feet; thence one
hundred and fifty feet to Carolina
Northern R. R., (within forty-five
feet of Ed Spivey lot;) thence
southwest the Carolina Northern R.
R. to Ed Hill's corner; thence with
Ed Hill's line to beginning. Terms
of sale, cash, purchaser to pay for
paper*.
A. B. Jordan,
8-17-3t Master.
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FOR SALE
S283 acre farm; 125 acres in cultivation. Soil is flowery loam
with clay subsoil. hand lies Slightly rolling and is self drained.
JJ3.000.00 worth of pine timber owl place. New seven-room house,
pack house, tobacco barns and out buildings, stalls and etc. Three
miles of railroad town. Situated in Marion and Dillon counetis. A
very fine farm at $55.00 per acre.
HOO acres; 300 under cultivation, two miles from railroad station,
good house and out buildings, soil is flowery loam with clay subsoil.
Price $11,000.00, part cash balance to suit purchaser.
125 acres; 18 acres in cultivation, balance timbered. Good
house and out buildings; soil is gray loam. Three bourse farm can
be cleared. Price $1,(MM).00
A No. 3 llrick mill, fully equipped with all necessary appliances
for the making of brick Ten acres of land go with the mill.
Splendid clay. 1 .oca ted near N. & S. C. R. R. I vocal demand for
brick good. Mill has capacity of 20 to 25 thousand per day. Will v
sell at bargain.
Money to loan on Real Estate for term years at 6 per cent, interest.
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Mull ins, South Carolina
They last a lifetime. They're Fireproof?Stormproof?
I Inexpensive ? Suitable for all kinds of buildings. For
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Local dealer. or cortwright metal
^ roofing company
no. 50 n.23rd -st phil.fdelphi a . pa.
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